Welcome to My Indian stamps, first-day covers and postcards gallery. These items have all been collected by me since the age of seven. My desire here, is to show as often as I can, some of my presumed beauties and talk about them. And hopefully make Your Day in the bargain. In case you want a better view, JUST CLICK on the picture and it will be ENLARGED. Please also see my picture postcards blog www.mypicturepostcards.blogspot.in, and also my stamps blog www.letstalkstamps.blogspot.com.

12 January 2017

INS Vikramaditya 4.12.2013

INSVikramaditya(Vikramādityameaning "Brave as theSun") is a modifiedKiev-classaircraft carrierwhich entered into service with theIndian Navyin 2013. She has been renamed in honour ofVikramaditya, a legendary emperor ofUjjain, India.

Originally built asBakuand commissioned in 1987, the carrier served with theSoviet Navyand later with theRussian Navy(asAdmiral Gorshkov) before being decommissioned in 1996 as she was too expensive to operate on a post-Cold War budget.The carrier was purchased by India on 20 January 2004 after years of negotiations at a final price of $2.35 billion.The ship successfully completed her sea trials in July 2013and aviation trials in September 2013.

She wascommissionedon 16 November 2013 at a ceremony held atSeverodvinsk,Russia.

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I am Commodore Vijay Kapre. I am a stamp, FDC and special cover's collector. The three blogs show items from my collection, namely, foreign stamps and fdc's, Indian stamps and fdc's mainly post 1947, and about the Indian Armed Forces. The main focus is on the occasion for issue of the stamps and covers, and the special postmarks on them. I have tried to give a short brief about the Units involved in the blog for the Forces.
For picture postcards, please visit my blog http://mypicturepostcards.blogspot.com/
My email address is kaprevijay@gmail.com